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Re: Cursor: A code editor built for programming with AI

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Im curious. How did the github repo get 1.9k stars after just 2 weeks of development. Was it shared heavily on chinese social media (I noticed lots of github issues were written in chinese) ? I couldn't find any traces of it on twitter/google .

minorly blew up on twitter (https://twitter.com/amanrsanger) and then chinese social media

Re: Cursor: A code editor built for programming with AI

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Im curious. How did the github repo get 1.9k stars after just 2 weeks of development. Was it shared heavily on chinese social media (I noticed lots of github issues were written in chinese) ? I couldn't find any traces of it on twitter/google .

AI is still in an info-phase Bitcoin was in before 2017. Tech news are 50% AI, but it’s not on TV or in general public chit-chat yet. Expected to see an avalanche of fake/fraud/phony products based on it as we’ve seen about blockchain. It’s surprising it took so long, actually. Also expected to see some bs in a spirit of (but unlike) NFTs.

def a lot of fluff in the space!

fwiw, feel quite strongly that LLMs will result in big productivity increases for many developers in the near-term

started working on cursor bc I think a ton of speedups would require editor-level changes (e.g. more mundane ones liek auto-fixing errors from the terminal/LSP, much better code nav/understanding using auto-generated docs; wackier ones like letting you edit a pseudocode version of your codebase)

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